Rosco Fine Arts

Pictures & words by Ronald Crittenden

Evening harbor scene from the Embarcadero in Morro Bay, showing boats tied up below the brightly lit Harbor Hut restaurant.
Harbor Hut I		Yellow late-afternoon light illuminates Morro Bay, turning the Rock golden and throwing middle ground boats into shadow.
Yellow Sunset II		a view of Flaming Gorge, showing light cliff walls accented by bright red stone.
Flaming Gorge
headlands and lighthouse at Castlepoint, New Zealand
Castlepoint Light		Coastline along Montana de Oro, showing waves washing into a rocky cove.
Montana Cove		Sunset over Morro Bay, with fishing boats in the foreground and Morro Rock in the background.
Morro Sunset II
Warm sunset light illuminates the sailboats floating foreground, in Morro Bay.
Sunset Masts		Joshua tree in foreground, with other trees in the middle distance, leading back to tan mountains in the background.
Joshua II		Stylized image of Morro Bay and Morro Rock, in heavily saturated yellow hues.
Yellow Rock Sunset
Slow-motion shot of surf crashing against a cove in Montana de Oro State Park, against a dark background.
Cove Surf I		A yellow dinghy with a pirate flag sits on a sandbar under a vast, cloudy sky.
Pocket Pirate		Crowned by a mixed flock of cormorants and pelicans, a ridge of rock thrusts from the foreground into the crashing surf.
Black Bird Ridge
Beach scene from Hawaii: in the middle distance, a line of three surfers waits to enter the water, while a line of three seated onlookers watches. In the background, distant hills are surmounted by a massive cloud bank, which is reflected in a long puddle in the foreground.
Syzygy		A purple sunset over Morro Bay, with the Rock in the background and fishing boats tied up to the foreground wharf.
Morning Light		Wave crashing the boulders one on edge of Morro Rock, with a colony of seabirds barely visible on the far boulder.
Hog Snout
Distant mountains under a spectacular anvil-shaped cloud system, on the highway to Ely, NV
Under the Big Top		A derelict boat lies abandoned in the foreground shallows, while a mysterious darkness appears to swallowing it from the right.
Into Dark Seas		sunset over Morro Bay, with a line of boats in the middle distance and Morro Rock behind.
Morro Sunset I